How to Hide Important Files inside a Picture

byDavid CurryonJanuary 23, 2008

The title seems kind of weird and interesting but its definitely possible. You can easily hide important files inside a picture such that the file becomes totally impossible to trace. This Windows trick is not a new one and probably most of you would already know about it but for those who don’t, it can come of great use anytime.

The file you want to save inside a picture can be of any extension e.g. exe, txt, mp3, avi or any other. This is probably the most secure way of hiding your private files in case you share your computer with your family members and you don’t want them to get a peek of your hidden files.

You will be needing WinRAR to perform this trick but as it is one of the world’s most commonly used software so I would assume that everyone reading this tutorial has got it already.

Here is how it goes:

Open C: Drive and make a folder in it e.g. “sizlopedia”. Put both the files i.e. the file that you want to hide and the image inside which you want to hide the file into this folder

Select both the files and make a compressed RAR archive e.g. “secret.rar” out of them

Open Run and type in “cmd” to open the Command Prompt. Now type “cd..” and press enter and repeat this once again. Type “cd sizlopedia” to open the folder (where “sizlopedia” is the folder that I am using in this tutorial)

see yar its so easy..rigt clk on d file so created while copying and den select properties in general choose change, in change select winrar thn fresh OK..nw on opening d image,it'll be open with the files present insude

I read it twice really carefully and I still can’t retreive the file. I tried both “raname .jpg .rar in cmd prompt and in normal windows with extensins displayed and it says that it’s corrupted/damaged when I try to open the archive.

for anyone who doesnt get it:
you can do this with ANY files, even if there is more than two, and even if the are not jpg. All this does is make a rar archive ‘inside’ another file. also, instead of changing the extension to .rar, you can just open the file with winrar.

In Vista, go to my computer, and click on “Organize” in the top navpane, and select “Folder and Search Options”.Click on the “view” tab, and uncheck the “Hide extensions for known file types” box.Your filenames should now display the extension, which can be changed by renaming the file.

If you hide a text in the txt file, and you hide it in a picture, for some reason, the hidden text is gone, only the public text stays.

And always write the picture file first in the command prompt.

copy /b pic.jpg + text.txt ger.txt.

If you don’t want your files to be corrupted, rar’ing is best; but if you don’t have rar, it still works without rar’ing. Your text will be in the middle or in the end of the file after pages of nonreadable characters.